Hmm, well given Harrison Ford looks half-asleep whatever he's doing these days...I think that Arndt's idea was probably the better one. Don't use the has-beens too much please! Don't want to get too cute with the references etc., better to dive into new stuff as soon as possible, while people are hyped up about the return of Star Wars.

Sounds a lot like the plot to Spy Kids. How about Luke goes back in time to prevent Anakin from going to the dark side but fails and ends up killing the Emperor? Cue alternative universe with Anakin and Luke as the leaders of the empire...

Wouldn't have been good to have the old school characters in some Jedi academy teaching newbies. Then within the first thirty minutes there are various attacks on the academy killing off the old ones and leaving only the rookies to work out what's going on and maybe there was an attack from within too that they've got to work out? And in relation to big names, wasn't Alex Guniness the only 'name' in the first film. Do we really need lots of names in this one?